{"id":95,"date":"2023-01-15T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:30:59","slug":"come-at-me-ogl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Come at me, OGL."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a gamer since 1983 or 1984, when an elementary school classmate introduced me to <em>Car Wars<\/em>.  Tabletop roleplaying got on my radar a few years later when I picked up a copy of <em>Autoduel Champions<\/em> for the helicopter rules and found a bunch of other material on superheroes. My first actual RPG was probably <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness<\/em>, followed closely by <em>Mechwarrior<\/em> and <em>Twilight: 2000<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to 2000, I had played in two sessions of <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em>, separated by about five years.  The third edition <em>Player&#8217;s Handbook<\/em> was the first D&amp;D book I ever owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I have approximately 49 shelf-feet of RPG material between my library and my office.  My combined D&amp;D material across all editions is under 2.5 shelf-feet, making it roughly 5% of my total TTRPG collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cursory survey of my library yielded a small number of RPGs that can give me some form of high fantasy gaming experience with no meaningful connection to D&amp;D, Wizards of the Coast, or the Open Gaming License:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Ars Magica<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Blade of the Iron Throne<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Burning Wheel<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Dark Eye<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dominion Rules<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dragon Age<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dungeon World<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Earthdawn<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Exalted<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Forbidden Lands<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>GURPS<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Iron Kingdoms<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Legend of the Five Rings<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Palladium Fantasy<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Riddle of Steel<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Runequest<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Symbaroum<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Talislanta<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s just what I have in print. Those vastly outweigh my D&amp;D materials, even combined with the other games I own that rely on the OGL (<em>13th Age<\/em>, <em>Blue Rose<\/em>, <em>Dungeon Crawl Classics<\/em>, <em>Fantasy Craft<\/em>, <em>Pathfinder<\/em>, <em>The Wheel of Time<\/em>, and <em>Worlds Without Number<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has the OGL been a huge boon to the subsidized hobby (I can&#8217;t call it &#8220;industry&#8221; with a straight face) that is tabletop roleplaying?  Absolutely.  But Wizards of the Coast&#8217;s complete implosion and irrelevance will not meaningfully affect my ability to play games, even in the genre space that D&amp;D currently dominates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t have a D&amp;D Beyond subscription to cancel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a gamer since 1983 or 1984, when an elementary school classmate introduced me to Car Wars. Tabletop roleplaying got on my radar a few years later when I picked up a copy of Autoduel Champions for the helicopter rules and found a bunch of other material on superheroes. My first actual RPG was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobby-musings","tag-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}